We are not here to make business out of it. So we shouldn't give much priority to the number of users that would be using our app at starting. Instead I believe we should focus more on developing a wonderful product which can help us shift focus of users to open and free apps. The biggest challenge for us will be to change the trend. <div class="gmail_quote">On 28-Apr-2016 8:10 PM, "Daniel Pocock" <<a href="mailto:daniel@pocock.pro">daniel@pocock.pro</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 28/04/16 16:36, Martin Klapetek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Pocock <<a href="mailto:daniel@pocock.pro">daniel@pocock.pro</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel@pocock.pro">daniel@pocock.pro</a>>> wrote: > > On 28/04/16 14:16, Martin Klapetek wrote: > > > You might get surprised, because yes, crushing majority of facebook > > users would rather stay connected with 350 friends on facebook than > > be alone on a motorbike forever. You need to ask the ordinary users, > > not your IT friends circle. > > > > This is where you need to think about it more deeply > > Look at Apple: they are happy to have 10% of users who absolutely love > them while the other 90% buy other products. Would they make a change > to their business model that might lose some of those people to try and > get bigger market share? I doubt it. > > Look at Jeremy Corbyn (Britain's new Labor party leader): like Apple, > his message is constant. No monarchy, no nuclear weapons. People > either agree with him or they don't but everybody knows where he stands. > He doesn't care about all the mainstream voters who are uncomfortable > with his views and maybe he won't ever be elected PM, but he sticks to > his values. > > We need to take the same approach as Apple and Corbyn: prioritize our > values. Serve our biggest supporters as well as we can instead of > losing sleep over everybody and everything. > > > These analogies are flawed, however. Apples and oranges. > > Apple is a for-profit company and even that 10% of the marketshare > is enough for it to still be the highest valued company in the world. > Btw now they reported losses after longlong time. Yes, I'm pretty > sure there will be business model adjustment. Make no mistake, > profit is the number one priority for Apple. > > But you need to look into our own field - OpenOffice, Calligra Office, > MeeGo, Mozilla is getting rid of Thunderbird and FirefoxOS, ICQ, > MySpace, and so many more are left behind because they couldn't > stay relevant today. Even BlackBerry is a sinking ship these days, > despite their strong values of privacy. > > Yes, we should keep our values up high and always in front, but at > the same time we need to understand our target users as well as the > "business landscape" and make sure we're ahead. Otherwise we'll > get left behind in our world of ideals and illusions. > Without our ideals, we would end up being indistinguishable from the millions of "free" apps that people can download from Google Play _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list <a href="mailto:telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org">telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy</a> </blockquote></div>